To access the full list of Sysinternals utilities, click the Sysinternals Suite link in the left pane of the Windows Sysinternals home page. Not only are all of the Sysinternals utilities mentioned in this article available for download/installation from the Windows Sysinternals website but most also run live from their 'home pages' in the Sysinternals area on the Microsoft website. Nevertheless, we can state with absolute finality and security that all our choices are bound to be both useful and informative, and that looking for more choices will only result in the discovery of further treasures.

Picking the top five from Sysinternals is not unlike picking the five best artworks by Leonardo da Vinci or the five best symphonies by Mozart: No matter which ones you pick, they're bound to be good, but there's also bound to be disagreement from other cognoscenti with different tastes or objectives who have their own favorites to push and promote. Our top five, as well as the rest of the over 100 other utilities you'll find there, are all worth digging into, and getting to know. Although Sysinternals is now part of Microsoft-and one of its primary principals, Mark Russinovich, is now a Microsoft Technical Fellow-the Sysinternals name has been well-recognized since the mid-1990s when it burst onto the scene with some superlative Windows utilities.Įverything you'll find in this article is available from the Microsoft Windows Sysinternals web pages (now called Microsoft Sysinternals) for free. Sysinternals is a company name to conjure within the Windows community.

Here, we profile a handful of tools that Windows users of all stripes are likely to find invaluable. Long known for their power and capability, they're both free and incredibly useful. The Sysinternals utilities for Windows offer some of the best diagnostic and troubleshooting tools around.

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